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After a 16 year break from Coarse Angling I re-ignited my passion for fishing in 2010. Follow my journey from tackle selection, new methods, old and new venue's. All the blanks and bags captured. Thanks for stopping by...

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Deciding to fish locally again this weekend and reviewing the Carrs Angling Lakes website I noted they have a regular Saturday match. The fishery is 10 minutes from my home so it wasn't an early start and I arrived at the fishery for 9:15am. Worryingly there were very few cars in the car park and nobody milling about who looked like they would be fishing a match. So with no match on, I thought lets have a change from the carp lakes and try out Carr's Silver Lake.

The weather had taken a change and there was frost on the ground for the first time this year.

The Set-Up
I chose peg 12 on the Silver lake which gave me an option to fish both the cut between the island with 13 metres and also the open water ahead with 6 metres.

Day 2 of the 2012 Larford Lash-up... how many competitors would make the bankside after the massive night at Chateau Disney??? Well surprisingly all of them, although there were a few notable incidents in the middle of the night and one particular MFS'er , who shall remain nameless who didn't get back to the hotel until 7:30am...

Colin (BNF) had claimed to victims of the famous "Battered by BNF" t-shirts, Jads and Rich Bedder... some how, Jads t-shirt ended up left at the hotel... check out the pictures at the bottom of this blog ;-)

The Draw
Again, Andy and Sarah Kinder had this well organised. Those anglers who had fished the Match or Arena lake where to draw from the Specimen lake bucket and vice versa. Two semi-orderly lines formed and I drew out Peg 56 on Specimen lake, two thirds the way along the Chalet Bank.

Neighbour for the day was Anthony, who I was pegged next to the previous year along with Bob Poole... I wonder if I could reclaim this £1?

Day 1 of the 2012 MatchFishing-Scene Larford Lash-up as organised by Andy and Sarah Kinder and kindly hosted by Phil Briscoe, Maver MD. A record number of attendees this year, around 85 and the hangover started early after a night with the lads at the Robin Hood Pub down the road from Chateaux Disney. I was an honouree "Jock"for the weekend which was a privilege and also meant I was in the "Top Jock" pool totalling £8 pounds, Scottish or English, it didn't matter ;-)

The Draw
With so many anglers and the late arrival of Jason who had all the match sheets, Andy and Sarah Kinder did a cracking job of getting us all registered, pools paid and generally organised. I drew out Match lake, permanent peg 28, an end peg plus it was the peg that won Les Thompson the £50,000 first prize on Maver's MatchThis competition.

My neighbour for the day was none other than Bob Poole, who I sat next to at last years Larford Lash-up. Maybe a chance to win my pound back?The Se…

In my quest to fish more local venues, the lads on the Anglers Cabin forum have started a monthly match at Hemlington Lake in Hemlington, Middlesbrough, so I put my name down.

I last fished Hemlington Lake back in 1988, some 24 years ago! The lake has changed quite a bit since then... a number of floating islands have been put in place to help protect the fish stock from Cormorant predation. Fishing swims are now clearly pegged out with staging. There is plenty of bird wildlife on the lake and the vegetation around the lake is really well established. More details on Hemlington Lake and activities around the area can be found on this link.

The Draw
11 people turned up for the 5th match at Hemlington. A great bunch of lads as most anglers are with plenty of characters. Daftlad (Matty) the venue regular wasn't fishing but offered plenty of helpful advise to everyone. Of course there is always one angler who arrives last and is paid out on the most. That honour was Gambits (…